[Remote] Cloud Engineer (Contract)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vervint is seeking a Cloud Engineer to join its backend platform team in a hands-on contract role. The engineer will build and extend Go and AWS cloud services supporting connected-device features, implement APIs and infrastructure, write tests, troubleshoot device data flows, and support day-to-day operations.

Responsibilities

• Build and extend the services and endpoints behind connected-device features — device state, telemetry, real-time status, notifications, and history — to an agreed design
• Write the Go code that moves device telemetry through the event pipeline and out to the APIs the app consumes
• Implement API handlers against agreed request/error contracts, including auth, pagination, and locale handling
• Define the tables, streams, and storage your work needs in CDK, following the existing stack, naming, and IAM conventions rather than inventing new ones
• Write unit and integration tests for the code you ship, and keep types, lint, and the test suite green before opening a pull request
• Help debug and resolve issues along the device data path, using logs, metrics, and traces to find root cause rather than guessing
• Support day-to-day operations as devices ship — OTA rollouts, field diagnostics, and engineering-facing support questions
• Participate in code review in both directions, take architectural direction from senior engineers, and flag gaps or ambiguous requirements early

Skills

• 3+ years building backend services in the cloud, with hands-on Go — or strong experience in another statically typed language and willingness to write Go
• Hands-on AWS experience with services such as Lambda, ECS/Fargate, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Kinesis, and S3
• Working knowledge of DynamoDB key design and query patterns, and awareness of what a poor access pattern costs at scale
• Experience building and consuming HTTP APIs, including error handling, pagination, and authentication
• Some exposure to queues or streams and the fundamentals that come with them — retries, duplicates, and ordering
• Exposure to infrastructure as code — CDK, CloudFormation, or Terraform — and a basic grasp of IAM and secrets handling
• Experience writing unit tests for your own code, not treating testing as someone else's job
• Clear written communication, a habit of surfacing blockers early, and the curiosity and adaptability to grow with the team
• Connected-device or IoT backend experience: MQTT, device state, provisioning, or OTA
• Go modules and monorepo workflows, or containerized services on ECS/Fargate
• Real-time delivery to mobile clients — WebSocket APIs, reconnects, and fan-out
• OpenSearch, push notifications (APNs/FCM), or observability tooling such as Prometheus, Loki, and OpenTelemetry
• Comfort using AI-assisted development tools to move faster without shipping code you can't explain

Benefits

• Remote work arrangement

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